>>102226398
Pretty much.
Dark things have a bleak and negative outlook or harsh themes, but are presented in a that you like it.
Edgy is supposed to mean avant garde or on the forefront of what is acceptable. But it's an envelope that's often pushed too far for the sake of being pushed too far and that's why edgy has such a bad connotation.
Like A Serbian Film. Complete edge for the sake of edge.

If meaning>execution, dark.
If it's more about the execution, presentation, imagery and whatever, than about the meaning, it's edgy.
In short, you can afford darkness only as a tool to a greater end. Otherwise, it's just edge

>>102226973
I feel incredibly insulted by the fact that some pretentious faggot thinks as low of me as to believe he can fool me with this kind of shallow lol so randub ridiculous bullshit, just because he as a nice tag on his desk that says "Artist".
Few things get me mad as this. I'd analrape those 2deep4u edgy liberal faggots into oblivion if I had the chance

edgy things are dark just for the sake of being dark. They don't bring anything to the table. like that loser in your class who has a weird obsession with nietzsche and claims to understand him more than anyone else or that middle school student who brings a knife to school just to show off how badass he is

Edgy can be used to describe something that pushes boundaries or could be perceived as offensive. For example, edgy humor might be about things like terrorism, racial stereotypes, abortion, etc. Something that's meant to be edgy that takes itself seriously might include a lot of profanity, violence, sexual content, etc. Edgy doesn't necessarily have a negative connotation too. There are quite a few things that are edgy and good.

Dark just describes the tone of a work. I think this is a little more flexible, and I couldn't give a solid definition for what it entails.

Here's an example: The Nightmare Before Christmas is dark, but it's not edgy. Pulp Fiction is edgy, but it's not dark.

>>102226263
What about this?
If deals with human nature and it's portraits it in a very realistic way, so much that's it's not funny, and the viewers feel related, infuriated of very sad I would call it dark. Works like Eva in a symbolic way, pun pun, aku no hana, pluto , now and then.
But the definition here sometimes it's only to mock certain attitudes which might be serious in other context but due overuse, have lost all meaning like revenge, in certain settings, the death of an idol being literal or symbolic, friendship etc

>>102227483
No need to be defensive - there's nothing wrong with liking nietzsche, and I respect people for being well-read. You just might not have that guy in your life, but I've encountered this type of person twice in my life. That guy who's just itching to show off how he's above the herd mentality and whatnot. The one who's read and memorized Thus spoke, Beyond good and evil, and on the genealogy of morality but has no idea who foucault or sartre is.

>>102227907
I feel the exact opposite. SnK is really silly and 'fun' in a way that works against any edginess it might have, while Madoka really wants you to feel sorry for these barely established characters .

>>102227932
Yeah and big chunk of the recommended ones in the chart are called pretentious say: lain, haibane, texnohlize, flcl, Eva, the Tatami galaxy , mononoke, mushishi, monogatari, monster you name it are constantly called like that and nobody that ever watched one of those series will call it edgy. MANSFIELD rewWhate

>>102227372
When I was in middle school a guy brought a knife to school and stabbed some other guy in the gut, for fucking his girlfriend apparently.
I watched him bleed and twitch on the ground.
Kind of fucked with my mind forever.

>>102228505>trying to argue with people who hate something
If they were willing to discuss it, they wouldn't admit that they "hate" it anyway.
Yeah, it's childish as fuck, I know, but the place is filled with kids here.

>>102228645
Not the anon that made the retard comment, but my main problem with the original comment was it said that Madoka tried to make you feel for it's poorly established characters. Even though that's one of SnK's biggest problems.

>>102228788
Both series have this problem.
Both Madoka and SnK have good and boring characters, and they're trying to make us feel bad for them.

Madoka succeeded towards the end, SnK started pulling it off after Utgard (way better than Madoka if you ask me).

I wouldn't go as far to call other people retards because we don't share an opinion though, that shit is dumb as fuck.
Yeah, people like different things, and that doesn't mean that your or their taste is better. The sooner you learn to get over it, the better,

>>102226263
If we are talking about what constitutes edgy in 4chan terms stuff like a Serbian film, violence for the sake of violence and gratuitous rape with no real point besides it being wanted are what you could consider edgy.

Meanwhile as others have stated stuff like Evangelion, Pun pun, Aku no Hana and Madoka are all what could be considered dark because unlike "edgy" stuff there is usually a point & message to all the violence,rape & soul-crushing pain that happens to the characters.

>>102228788
My point is that as 'try hard' as SnK can be, I enjoy it because it's an over the top shounen action series that's silly enough that it's funny and does a better job of it then most of the genre while having something of a planed world to keep me interested (which is still entertainingly silly in itself). I'm not watching it to become attached to the characters in the first place and I'm glad it doesn't try.

Madoka on the other hand isn't really exceptional as a Mahou Shoujo aside from how condensed it is, and has sub par characterisation for its genre. Since it isn't fascinating outside of that or it's audio visual qualities, most of it just bores me.